Add 0.9 Kafka binder

[spring-cloud]

Add 0.9 Kafka binder

[sabbyanandan]

From @mbogoevici on February 24, 2016 18:2

We need to discuss backwards compatibility options for 0.8 too I believe.

[sabbyanandan]

Yeah, maybe we would be fine with existing tests, but chances are @garyrussell would want to add new tests, too.

The backward compatibility is a whole different story though. Gary's thoughts below.

Gary Russell [9:47 AM] 
But I think Marius is planning to create the binder as a new project so there could be two binders; but I don’t know how long he would want to support that
Gary Russell [9:47 AM] 
The 0.9 client is sooooo much simpler, it makes no sense (from an SI perspective) to support both.

[sabbyanandan]

From @mbogoevici on February 24, 2016 18:13

Just to clarify: I do not feel we should support both in the same release. But there should be an option for users that are on 0.8 - even if that means moving out the 0.8 version post 1.1 (when it is the most likely we'll upgrade to 0.9).

[sabbyanandan]

From @mbogoevici on February 24, 2016 18:17

And for 1.0 we can provide a separate binder 0.9 implementation that could be developed between the RC and GA timeline for 1.0 (also more lenient for dependencies, e.g using Mx releases of Spring Integration Kafka, which is typically a non-starter for RC releases).

[sabbyanandan]

From @cdupuis on May 24, 2016 10:2

@mbogoevici and @garyrussell what are the plans for this? Do you guys have any idea on timing on this?

Thanks, cd

[sabbyanandan]

From @mbogoevici on May 24, 2016 10:39

@cdupuis: Based on the current progress of Spring Kafka and Spring Integration Kafka 0.9, we will be able to provide a milestone that supports it in the next weeks with the goal of aligning Kafka 0.9 support in SCSt with the Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.0 release.

Note that the current implementation still supports interacting with 0.9 brokers, but it uses the simple consumer API of 0.8.x (which is still compatible). The major goal of this is to get advantage of the new 0.9 client features, and especially of rebalancing and dynamic scaling of clients.

[sabbyanandan]

From @mbogoevici on May 24, 2016 10:51

To wit, the only blocker of some sorts is spring-projects/spring-kafka#84 and we are positive that it will be solved soon.

[sabbyanandan]

From @cdupuis on May 25, 2016 15:38

Thanks @mbogoevici.

[mbogoevici]

Closed via #13

[Kenvelo90]

@sabbyanandan
Does it mean that we can dynamically add Kafka consumers in v1.1.0.RELEASE?

According to spring data flow latest documentation:
"Currently, this is not supported with the Kafka binder (based on the 0.8 simple consumer at the time of the release), as well as partitioned streams, for which the suggested workaround is redeploying the stream with an updated number of instances. Both cases require a static consumer set up based on information about the total instance count and current instance index, a limitation intended to be addressed in future releases. For example, Kafka 0.9 and higher provides good infrastructure for scaling applications dynamically and will be available as an alternative to the current Kafka 0.8 based binder in the near future. One specific concern regarding scaling partitioned streams is the handling of local state, which is typically reshuffled as the number of instances is changed. This is also intended to be addressed in the future versions, by providing first class support for local state management."

Reference:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-dataflow/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#arch-runtime-scaling

Great work it's an awesome integration!

[sabbyanandan]

Hi, @Kenvelo90:

Does it mean that we can dynamically add Kafka consumers in v1.1.0.RELEASE?

If you're building standalone Spring Cloud Stream (SCSt) applications, yes, you could and that is supported.

In Spring Cloud Data Flow, there's no tight coupling of SCSt except of course the applications built with SCSt are registered and used in the stream definitions. That said, we are in the process of upgrading OOTB applications with the latest SCSt 1.1.0.RELEASE and when that is done, we will update the docs. In the meantime, you can build and register custom SCSt applications with the latest Kafka binder to take advantage of the auto-balancing capabilities.

[Kenvelo90]

@sabbyanandan Great, Thank You!